By ancestors I mean like “cavemen” in a sense. If they had to sleep in caves surrounded by a million different noises, predators, insects, and sleeping on primitive beds – I just cant see them getting any good night rests.
In today’s world sometimes we cant sleep even with great pillows, mattresses, soothing sounds, sleep aid medicine, etc. For some even the tiniest noise or light wakes them up. Thanks for and whatever the reason early hominids must have been pretty hardcore.
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If you can manage to actually find darkness, you will sleep like a baby.
Even a tiny green or red light from your TV or alarm clock is enough to fuck your entire night. Light from outside forget it. Noise from traffic, fuck right off.
Right about the time we see canines being “pets” in a primitive tribe, the size of the sections of the brain that process smells and hearing shrank, allowing the other parts of the human brain to grow.
Also, when a member of the tribe gets too old to hunt, they can “stand guard” while the others are sleeping. An older female assisting with the care of weaned children means that the younger females can have more children, and this was during a time when a fight for scarce resources during a temporary drought meant the tribe with the most fighters would win.
These are ways in which the more social tribes survived and grew compared to more individualistic tribes.
If you spend a week camping out in the wilderness you will very quickly realise that its pretty easy to fall asleep surprisingly early in the night when there is no artificial light.
If you worked on a working farm or ranch; the answer becomes abundantly clear. Or setting chokers logging, so on and so forth (logging was the family business but had friends working on farms and ranches). Not only slept well, didn’t have to go to the gym, your work did that for you.
They woke up at dawn and spent the day digging up and gathering food sources while keeping an eye on the kids (and carrying the youngest everywhere in a back sling) to keep them from wandering off too far and getting eaten by something big and toothy. Spend all day on your feet even just at a slow walk and you’ll get in your 10 000 steps a day and more.
No cars, no busses, no strollers, no grocery stores, no convenient tap water, and you have to do a hike well away from any drinking water source and dig a hole to take a crap which would have happened two to three times a day from the high fiber diet. Water is also heavy, all drinking water had to be hauled in from the nearest clean source, not always easily found. Camping next to good water is a good way to run into every thirsty and hungry predator out there. Oh yeah and no chairs. People just squatted instead of sitting down which uses more strength and energy than sitting.
I very much doubt they had trouble sleeping and it was probably higher quality sleep when they did it.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/health/sleep-like-your-ancestors/index.html
If you have trouble sleeping it’s because you have a shitty lifestyle and unhealthy habits.
I have a desk job and spend a lot of my leisure time in front of a PC as well, but I still clock 7-8 hours of sleep each night and usually fall asleep in 5-10 minutes
Maybe lay off the caffeine and junk food a little or swap to a less stressful job.
Easy: they didn’t have things like “*crippling debt*”, “*feelings of not fitting in in a modern world*”, or “*a sense of powerless against the corporate overlords destroying their planet*” keeping them up at night.
Chimpanzees sleep like 9 hours. Pretty sure none of the points you mentioned deterred the early hominids.
Using their bodies to points of exhaustion with physical activity daily helps you get the greatest sleep in your life
They didn’t sit on their asses all day like we do. Try walking through the forest for 6 hours hunting an animal. You’ll sleep real good later that night.
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